Posted 11:14 PM by Gene

Which gets settled first: the debt imbroglio or the NFL lockout?

I'm betting the NFL lockout because the parties aren't spending so much of other people's money.

Posted 4:54 PM by Gene

Hey Jim "MURROW" Fallow, I can think of a few pundits on both sides who ought NOT to use BS in a hed -- OR a URL. You're one of them.

Posted 1:27 PM by Gene

Boy! Are WE impressed by the types who can be big Hollywood stars today!

More on the Nuremburg Rally of show-biz later.

Posted 1:13 PM by Gene

Speaking of THE WRAP:

Meanwhile, coming off the biggest opening ever, Warner's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" dropped 91 percent week-to-week to $14.6 million [SIC]

EXCELLENT by PEOPLE WARNER standards. Certainly excellent by OUR standards.

Also that thoroughly planted business regarding the Marine Corps ball does not seem to have helped a dubious romcom. If newshackdom were manufacturing we'd lead China by many multiples.

P. S. Actually, it's 83.9 percent. Still -- EXCELLENT!

Posted 1:11 PM by Gene

Bullet train in China derails, cars fall off bridge

Which, if it means anything, means the Chinese can boast more about their bullet trains while complaining they're assembled like their cheap goods at Walmart.

Posted 1:06 PM by Gene

We wish we could say something about Amy Winehouse other than that she had a knack of getting her name on Web sites, but now at least she is free of those demons that too often got her onto Web sites.

(Via The Wrap)

Posted 10:39 AM by Gene

Well, this wasn't the religion whose name should not be spoken, so we apologize for that; rather, this is Norway's version of Virginia Tech, conducted by a psychopath. Now, alas, Norway will for weeks ask itself how it can eliminate psychopaths. We've already asked that question.

And of course we can expect the hacks to play up the words RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST!!!!! (i.e., CONSERVATIVE). While never excusing anyone's politics we must remember both sides harbor psychos, and this was a psychopath more than anything.

We will probably not follow this story, as 1. It's a non-stop publicity reward for someone beneath the creatures beneath rocks, and 2. What's the point of upsetting yourself for no reason?

One question: We assume Norway has endless mindless cable "news". Who will be the Brian Williams of Norway? Or will he come from HERE as usual? Another reason not to watch cable "news".

Incidentally, modern medicine does seem to be trying to eliminate American psychopaths. Why is another matter. (Link via HENRY HONEST)

Posted 10:30 AM by Gene

Norway loses its innocence as terrorists strike at heart of government

We can expect such nonsense from NEWS HACKS, especially British ones. The human race hasn't had much innocence since the snake, and besides, innocence is in the realm of children, who were the chief victims yesterday. Moreover no nation can escape its history, and the Norwegians cannot fully speak of innocence as they bequeathed the world the infamous name VIDKUN QUISLING. Norway has suffered a terrible obscenity, but let us not wipe our slates clean every time such happens.

And Quisling's last words before his execution were, "I'm convicted unfairly, and I die innocent!" Such are the delusions of traitors.

Posted 5:26 PM by Gene

No, we could certainly not pass Harvard's 1869 entrance exam, nor could very many others -- but LOTS of kids can pass those EVERY CHILD A DILBERT tests. That's one reason why they couldn't either.

As for whether today's Harvard students could pass it that goes without saying.

(Original Paper of Re-CORD blog post and .pdf file)

Posted 2:19 PM by Gene

Say what you will about NUKEMAN, at least now he's being honest: he WANTS to build nukes, and we can thus presume he WANTS to nuke Israel, clearly more honest than all his folderol and fiddledeedee about peaceful uses blahblahblah. You have to wonder though if his clerics aren't being shrewd: by NOT talking about building nukes it gives them more time to build them, and more time to unleash a surprise attack on Israel. Cle-VER!

Yes, we should be glad NUKE wants to come clean on his true intentions, as though we hadn't an inkling through his grinning dissembling -- not to mention behaviors like his low-tech method of execution.

Posted 10:56 AM by Gene

The economy has become to blacks what His Incompetence's handling of Israel is to Jews. TRANSLATION: Their turnout will be 80 percent instead of 90.

Posted 10:54 AM by Gene

Look, it shouldn't be illegal for a president to campaign from the White House; it's just campaigning from the White House makes it seem that way.

Posted 10:50 AM by Gene

“I’m the Senate majority leader — why don’t I know about this deal?”

You mean there isn't a reason?

Posted 10:26 AM by Gene

Well here's a new one: an officially-sponsored professional-kolledge sports franchise's BEER!

And these are the same egghead clowns who get exercised when their insteetooshuns get called party skools.

Posted 10:13 AM by Gene

So -- if Mr. Magoo's on His way out, and Prince James lied, then who runs SLIMEDOM?

Posted 10:01 AM by Gene

Let me guess: The unmentionable religion. But why Norway?

(Via Marketwatch)

Posted 6:22 PM by Gene

At this rate we'll have a new controlling party in Congress every election. A lot of good THAT will do.

Well, it might remind people that neither party can be trusted -- and our only hope is a new one.

Posted 6:01 PM by Gene

Guess who's stolen SLIME's e-mails!

Pfffffffffffffffffffffffft!

Posted 5:56 PM by Gene

Even the Treasury must concede, yes, it lost money on Chrysler.

BUT IT SAVED JOBS!

In Italy.

P. S. on 7/30/2011 at 6:37 p. m. I was wrong about the jobs; see here.

Posted 5:54 PM by Gene

Alas, even in JPODDOM, where SLIME can do no wrong, a bit of light must creep in:

Obama All-Time Top Recipient of News Corp. Contributions

This will SHOCK those who think PILLHEAD is infallible. What does JPOD do? How can he call SLIME's enemies EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL when his God's Kingdom has backed His Omnipotence? But a SLIME organization man is nothing if not shameless, and we'd bet he has an unspoken answer: that SLIME is BROAD-MINDED. No, it merely says SLIME COMMISSIONED IF I DID IT.

Posted 8:08 PM by Gene

An excavation crew recently made a startling discovery at the bottom of Pearl Harbor when it unearthed a skull that archeologists suspect is from a Japanese pilot who died in the historic attack on Dec. 7, 1941.

YOUR INCOMPETENCE...oh, never mind.

Posted 6:25 PM by Gene

Tiring as we are of SLIME and His SYCOPHANTS, time to have a laugh -- the first time in a while -- with...ARCHDaily!



Steamrollered cadaver with blue hair!

Standing in -- a blue puddle?



Why did Nestlé build a Chocolate Museum that looks like a tribute to Red Dye No. 2?



Another I SEE YOU!



Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Win Competition For Tallest Three-Sided Steel Pickle with a Nose Cone in the World

That's NOT what it says?



We hate to broach this but given the location -- Germany -- does this not look like a hip outbuilding at a modern concentration camp?



Was that thing on the right alive?



A condom for buildings!



Let me guess -- this place has no industry anymore!



Sorry, Mac -- a garage will always look like a garage!

Posted 6:01 PM by Gene

To note the hypocrisy of critics like Bernstein or the political motivations of many of Murdoch’s critics is not to excuse what happened.
BUT....
No JPOD stooge, you are excusing what happened because the boss is "CONSERVATIVE." Same with Jo-NAH when he laughs over the self-righteous stupidity of reporters who turned down an acquisition from SLIME. Notwithstanding He would probably have sold or closed a paper in A DYING TOWN anyway, that was plainly an act of political pigheadedness at least equal to the sainted Grahams of KAPLAN, INC. turning down an offer from NewsMAX!!!!! for Newsweek because NewsMAX!!!!! is CONSERVATIVE. No, we are talking nearly equal and opposite pigheadedness, and exemplified by JPOD's EMPLOYER, which has treated its HERO like a corpse and all but BURIED HIM. If The Paper of Re-CORD shows the dangers of left-wing reaction, the likes of THE MAN WHO "KILLED" McKINLEY show the dangers of RIGHT-WING REACTION.

For the kazillion quintillionth time: A PLAGUE O' BOTH YOUR HOUSES!

Posted 5:37 PM by Gene

News Corp. May Be On Its Way To Voluntarily Disclosing Its Worst Secrets To The U.S. Government



Lovable ol' Mr. Magoo isn't out of the woods yet.

Posted 5:33 PM by Gene

The Crainiacs furrow their ample brows and frown:

Super Bowl Spots and Their Creatives Even Less Diverse Than Ad Industry

And you know what THAT means -- no...people of color. But take it another way and you know what it means: an industry as completely devoid of intelligence and taste and talent as it is mindlessly lock-steppingly conformist. An industry that worries about...people of color when it doesn't worry about what it spews on America is beneath scorn.

Posted 2:22 PM by Gene

Ethics panel outsources Waters case

To India? Pfffffffffffffffffffffft!

Posted 12:09 PM by Gene

If SLIME won't resign why should the PM?

Posted 12:04 PM by Gene

No! NO! False temples to a...TRUE God!

Sure enough, a quick check of the Apple website revealed the tech giant has zero official stores in Kunming. The blogger, a non-profit worker, adds that there are some licensed resellers of Apple products in the area, namely a chain of electronic stores called Xinya, but this did not appear to be one of them. Read the whole post here, including references to shady “plain clothes security guys” lingering outside the fake store. The best part? The blogger found two more seemingly counterfeit Apple stores in the immediate vicinity. Who knows how many more are cropping up all over China’s provinces? Steve Jobs, you’ve got a problem on your hands.

A problem all the way to the UNIVERSE'S BIGGEST MARKET CAP!!!!!!!!!!

Posted 1:45 PM by Gene

Stocks rise further as Obama addresses debt talks

NOW how is the Casino getting paid?

Posted 1:43 PM by Gene

Goldman’s best days may be over

TRANSLATION: The villain's merely changing faces.

Posted 1:41 PM by Gene

[C]heating also means that public schools finally care enough about student performance that some ethically challenged educators have chosen to cheat. This is far better than the alternative, where learning is so incidental and non-transparent that people of low character can’t be bothered to lie about it. Blaming cheating on the test amounts to infantilizing teachers, moving teaching 180 degrees away from the kind of professionalization that teacher advocates often profess to support.

So -- we have a choice between ethically challenged educators and total incompetents.

On the half-a-loaf scale this may not qualify as a crumb.

Posted 10:16 AM by Gene

SLIME -- HUMBLED?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Why didn't they strap Him to a lie detector?

DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGWHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

(Via Finviz)

Posted 8:46 AM by Gene

TRANSLATION: ESPN's new fig leaf does its job well!

Which is to say, in practical terms, not at all.

Posted 8:21 AM by Gene

Speaking of USAOKAY!!!!!, and even though it be from EMMETT "KELLY"'s, champion of SLIME's press freedom:

[T]he excess of press freedom which the Times continues to champion even at the expense of its country's diplomacy, and very likely its security too, will mean that trash continues to dominate the news -- which in turn will make the special things that newspapers and other large media organizations can do that the specialist trash-merchants and two-bit aggregators cannot do will take up an ever smaller share of what they in fact do, and so continue to make them seem ever more unnecessary and out of date. I wouldn't bet that the New York Times will go out of business, but this movie had the opposite of its intended effect by making me think it more likely to do so than I did before.

Posted 8:14 AM by Gene

A story like this reporting the expected -- that federal workers practically cannot be fired -- might affirm a newspaper aiming for public service if this weren't its allegedly most popular story.

Posted 11:36 PM by Gene

A commenter captures the essence of POP MU-SICK GENIUS:

Let's not spend so much energy defending pop. If you like it, you like it. Enjoy it without all of the excuses. We all like a hamburger every now and again.

But... let's not try to call these people talented. Those who write/produce the catchy tunes and create the pop stars might hold a ounce of the stuff... but the performers? No. They're a pair of tits, a couple of tattoos and a weave. The rest is computer assisted.

Posted 10:31 PM by Gene

The noises to remove SLIME from as top of the totem pole grow louder -- but we'd neglected this:

Any such move would be primarily a matter of public appearances, since Murdoch’s 38 percent share of News Corp.’s Class B voting stock effectively give him final say on everything.

I have my doubts too -- but then again no one seems to know if SLIME is a big fan of antioxidants.

P. S.

[H]e did receive one piece of good news: vocal support from a prominent board member.

Tom Perkins, an independent member of the board of directors and the first to speak out on the scandal, said the board “is fully supportive of the top management.”

A well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, Mr. Perkins said the independent board members “were stunned to discover the magnitude of the scandal over the last 10 days.”

“The board did discuss this several times two or three years ago, maybe earlier,” he said. “We’ve known about the phone hacking for a long time. We were told and top management, I’m sure, believed that the early news was the whole story. There’s no reason to believe top management was lying. That’s my very strong belief.”

“We all felt it was inexcusable for sure. We paid some money out, fired some people and we thought we’d fixed it.”

Mr. Perkins was also a member of the board of directors during a scandal at Hewlett-Packard, when the high-tech giant was involved in spying on board members and reporters to determine the source of leaked information. Mr. Perkins resigned from the board when he learned of the surveillance.

He said the News Corporation situation is different. “This is not like the HP situation,” he said. “The board supports top management.”

Oh.

P. P. S. LULZSEC IS BACK!

Next time though, get your punctuation right: it's mogul's, not "moguls".

Posted 10:59 AM by Gene

God knows we hate getting our news first from HENRY HONEST!!!!!, but why have the hacks ignored this story?

(More here)

Posted 10:14 AM by Gene

Six of one: THE WALL STREET JOURNALS CONSERVATIVE EDITION saying SLIME's guilty of nothing.

Half-a-dozen of the other: Romy and KEITH ZERO.

A PLAGUE O' BOTH YOUR HOUSES!

Posted 8:51 AM by Gene

Well -- looks as if we're about to lose our cardinal, for...the usual reasons.

We remember that guy who looked like a GM CEO who misran things in Boston. I guess it's impossible to get away with it now.

Posted 8:25 AM by Gene

Now the persecutors have done it! SLIME might lose control of His empire -- thanks to His BOARD!

We're with Perfesser Shafer on this one, but we wonder if finally He's made one enemy too many. We wonder too if this turns out exactly as we said: that "NEWS" CORP. spins off its papers and becomes a pure cable-gouging and teevee-and-movee-extruding ENTERTAINMENT firm. It's sure starting to look that way. The public may not win yet.

(First link via TINA!!!!!; THR link and "teevee-and" added 9:36 a. m.)

Posted 8:14 AM by Gene

Cameron to postpone parliamentary recess

England is going MAD! This is what happens when a bunch of COMSYMPS PANIC a nation into thinking a tyrant's in its midst! This is why Murdoch's being PERSECUTED: he's a threat to the old order! He's making people do things differently! He's no COMSYMP! He's...

I think I'll take a nap now.

Posted 8:35 PM by Gene

Keeping in mind this is from EMMETT "KELLY"'s site:

EVER WONDER HOW many artists thrived during the High Renaissance? Probably about 70 first-rate ones, of which a dozen are still remembered by art historians. Today, there are nearly two million hacks who call themselves professional artists. And by no one's reckoning are we living through a High Renaissance.

I figure there are at least 700 AHTS cri-TICS who'd say we are.

Posted 5:24 PM by Gene

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww SHUCKS, I guess this means we won't hear about another epochal change in society for the next three days.

How did it get to the point that I root against perfectly innocent people because I know the NEWS HACKS will drive me MAD when they get their way?

Posted 5:16 PM by Gene

Which is worse? Some perfesser likening Sherwood Schwartz to de Tocqueville -- or another con-SER-va-tive hack blaming liberals?

And on the latter this is a reasonable response, meaning it's one of the last we'll get now that this has become a partisan game of group self-abuse.

(All links via NRO?!?!?)

Posted 5:03 PM by Gene

Now that news hacks are happy again today I just thought up something stupid Mr. Bew-KES could do: Pay ROWLINGCORP in PEOPLE WARNER PREFERRED STOCK to continue the series! There's no other way He could do it. Three or four billion, with further payments if the company turns out more novels. Maybe He isn't that stupid but reports this was another 3D fizzle despite its ALL-TIME!!!!!!!!!! GROSSES!!!!!!!!!! say the former Citibank "account officer" could do it, in keeping with His training.

Scott, being a good GanNETToid, saves the bad news for last:

[T]he year remains 7% behind 2010 in revenues, 9% in attendance.

Barring the answer of news hacks' -- prayers? it seems this year will not avoid ignominy, and we hope for more of it once the ALL-TIME!!!!!!!!!! GROSSES!!!!!!!!!! fade.

Posted 4:08 PM by Gene

Which reminds us, what kept the former president of Uruguay from becoming a con-SER-va-tive hero -- like GEN. PINOCHET?

Perhaps not so much free en-ter-prise in Uruguay.

Posted 4:05 PM by Gene

Speaking of superlatives, what adjectives can con-SER-va-tives use to downplay the fact that London's police boss has resigned?

Posted 4:02 PM by Gene

The last thing a news hack should do is complain that superlatives have lost their punch.

(Via the usual AHTSJournal, of which no words can describe its annoyance)

Posted 11:24 AM by Gene

NRO, perhaps embarrassed when Ms. Travers came out and said what SLIME did was wrong, has kept more or less silent on Him, as before -- so now JPOD's site has taken up the cudgels and is defending Him with every cheap rhetorical trick in the book: the HE-MAY-BE-AN-SOB trick, the OUR-ENEMIES-ARE-JUST-AS-BAD trick, the THIS-IS-A-POLITICAL-WITCH-HUNT trick -- all the while blazingly unwilling to defend SLIME for what He did. If JPOD's crew had the GUTS to endorse His actions that would be one thing, though even con-SER-va-tives must know what He and His underlings did with NOTW was indefensible -- and possibly criminal, which, given their love affair with CON-nie, accounts for a good bit of their silence. I would rather they defend His actions than resort to their evasions. And they evade largely for one reason: because JPOD runs the joint, and HE STILL WORKS FOR SLIME. With each new post defending SLIME without defending Him CommentaryMagazine.com becomes as unreadable as E. J. Dionne. This is Nixonism at its worst, and it's shameful whatever the politics -- as if partisans know shame.

P. S. As I'm sending a link to this post to these folk, five things: 1. I consider myself a conservative, but I'd be no more a knee-jerk conservative than a knee-jerk anything. 2. SLIME has become to hard-core conservatives what Michael Moore is to hard-core liberals. 3. I have called Him SLIME since His company announced it was printing If I Did It, and especially now in light of NOTW and the female scapegoats He created I am thoroughly convinced that SLIME commissioned that "book". 4. This is slowly acquiring the vague odor of what happened to con-SER-va-tives back in 1940 when they turned the other cheek to the Nazis. Not to worry, JPOD, SLIME is no Hitler; but a Web site that so prides itself on supporting Israel should not forget that sorry conservative past. At the very least it's acquiring the aura of what happened to NRO when it turned the other cheek to an airhead. 5. FOR THE EIGHTY THOUSANDTH TIME: SLIME IS NO CONSERVATIVE.